tricollie4me
03-08-2005, 09:33 AM
My 5-month-old tri collie pup, Bijou, was among a litter of sables. I think that there were at least five pups in the litter. The rescue organization that I adopted her from told me that they received the pups from the owners at about 7+ weeks or so, and my pup was the last one to be adopted out when she was about 16 weeks of age.
When I emailed the rescue organization to let them know that I'd had Bijou spayed and that I'd be sending verification (they require it for their records), I also asked what she knew about the parents of my pup. In response, I was told the parents were purebred collies and the litter was an intentional one, though there were no papers on any of the collies.
What I wish I knew now was, why did an *intentional litter* end up in a rescue organization? Hadn't the folks who bred their collies planned on the pups, wanted them, expected to find homes for them?
If I hadn't adopted Bijou when I did, the rescue org. was just about ready to send her on to a collie foster home. (Had I not been ready to adopt Bijou on the spot, I'm not sure that sending her to a collie foster home would have been such a bad idea, considering the rescue organization was basically an outdoor barn (we live where the winters get bitter cold, snowy, etc.) with kennels/cages -- albeit run by a woman who did give "puppy shots" and did her best to find good homes.)
Does this sound more typical than I realized? I thought rescues basically received the dogs nobody wanted, or breeds that were somehow out of favor (for whatever reason) or took in an overflow from the "regular" shelters, etc., when the pup population was high.
What have been your experiences? This has been a whole new world for me.
When I emailed the rescue organization to let them know that I'd had Bijou spayed and that I'd be sending verification (they require it for their records), I also asked what she knew about the parents of my pup. In response, I was told the parents were purebred collies and the litter was an intentional one, though there were no papers on any of the collies.
What I wish I knew now was, why did an *intentional litter* end up in a rescue organization? Hadn't the folks who bred their collies planned on the pups, wanted them, expected to find homes for them?
If I hadn't adopted Bijou when I did, the rescue org. was just about ready to send her on to a collie foster home. (Had I not been ready to adopt Bijou on the spot, I'm not sure that sending her to a collie foster home would have been such a bad idea, considering the rescue organization was basically an outdoor barn (we live where the winters get bitter cold, snowy, etc.) with kennels/cages -- albeit run by a woman who did give "puppy shots" and did her best to find good homes.)
Does this sound more typical than I realized? I thought rescues basically received the dogs nobody wanted, or breeds that were somehow out of favor (for whatever reason) or took in an overflow from the "regular" shelters, etc., when the pup population was high.
What have been your experiences? This has been a whole new world for me.